Nature Based Solutions

We help you account for the nature in nature-based solutions (NbS)

More than 500 companies
in 104 countries
trust NatureMetrics

"Our innovative partnership with NatureMetrics is more than just a strategic alliance. It's a commitment to harnessing advanced eDNA technologies and global collaboration to drive our sustainability and conservation efforts. It's about utilising our resources wisely and optimising processes to make the best possible decission for our planet's future"

Linden Coppell

VP of Sustainability and ESG, MSC Cruises

We exceeded our goals, detecting hundreds of additional vertebrate species. Without eDNA and NatureMetrics, we would have been relegated to visual surveys, requiring more field time, and to opportunistic interviews for the other five target species, which are less reliable, auditable, and systematic. The hundreds of other species detections would not have been possible at all.

WWF

eDNA has got huge applicability. If we think about early on in the discovery and exploration phase,where our knowledge is limited about the potential biodiversity risk in the area that we might be looking to explore, it’s a critical component to that.

Anglo American

Traditional ecology often capture insufficient data. In contrast, eDNA has facilitated a much better understanding, especially in the case of large deep rivers, allowing for a more comprehensive grasp of the impacts on ecological communities. As a result, appropriate mitigation measures can be implemented

SMEC

eDNA provides wider ecological datasets that provide us with a tool not only to mitigate any potential impacts from developments but also to evidence the positive ecological impacts that can arise from offshore wind farms in a way we have not been able to do before due to traditional survey method constraints.

Natural Power

EDF Renewables are proud to be a part of this pioneering environmental DNA (eDNA) study with our partners Natural Power and NatureMetrics

EDF Renewables

Nature Based Solutions

Natural habitats provide a wide range of ecosystem services, from coastal protection to food production, water purification and carbon sequestration. These are complex systems that have impacts and dependencies on multiple components of biodiversity extending far beyond a single species of plant (or seaweed).

NatureMetrics DNA-based tools are used to assess biodiversity in terrestrial habitats from forests to peatland and coastal systems such as mangroves, seagrass and kelp. Each sampling effort lets us look at nature through multiple lenses – from microbes to megafauna – enabling assessment of overall ecosystem status at the same time as detecting the presence of key species of economic or conservation importance, or those that pose a threat to the habitat.

Accounting for biodiversity in NbS programmes can help ensure long-term ecosystem resilience while providing opportunities for participatory monitoring and engagement of local communities and stakeholders.

Our Services

An end-to-end solution for nature monitoring and impact reporting

Nature Advisory

Assess, plan and optimize your nature strategy, aligned to the latest frameworks and Science-based targets.

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Biodiversity Monitoring

The gold standard for biodiversity monitoring. eDNA provides unprecedented levels of site-level detail, never before achievable through conventional methods.

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